Custom gaming computer parts. Advice needed.

sethwilliam

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Approximate Purchase Date:
June 2013

Budget Range: $500-$700 total including shipping

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, school projects, Internet

Are you buying a monitor: No


Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, or anywhere cheaper

Location: City, State/Region, Country - Loma Linda, California, USA

Parts Preferences: whatever is better price for quality.

Overclocking: No

SLI or Crossfire: I don't know what it is. So probably no

Your Monitor Resolution: whatever's better for gaming and cheap. No smaller then 15in no bigger then 19in


Additional Comments: it doesn't need to be super quiet or impressive looking. It needs to be a strong gaming computer able to player skyrim on medium -high settings without any problems.


Thank you, this will be my first computer I build myself so, make it good ;)
 
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The parts that you buy will usually come with any screws or wires/connectors that you may need, the cpu that you have in the list will come with a fan/heatsink that you install on the cpu once it's put in the socket in the motherboard. You do have the option to get an after market fan/heatsink if you want to but only if you plan on overclocking the cpu.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116775

If you look at the details page...
If your building a computer with a low budget like yours and it's including the monitor and OS then it's going to be very tight and you will have to make sacrifices with what parts you can put in it. So what that means is you might not have a top performing gaming computer and the games may have to be played at lower settings and lower resolutions depending on the games. The other stuff like school projects and internet will not be a problem.

See what I can come up with.
 
Here is what I came up with and it's a little over the budget but there's not a lot you can cut from it and still be able to do what you want to do. The Monitor is a 20" but the price is the lowest and when you start going below $100 for a Monitor you risk getting something unacceptable.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LETd

You can also go onto the Part picker site and make your own selections as well. This site gives you the lowest prices on the web. If by some chance you live near a Micro Center then you can take this list and go to the store and get lower prices on some of these parts. With sales and rebates at the Micro Center you can get lower prices.
 
Well the partpicker does look for the lowest price on each item and if they are in different stores then you do have to get them from the different stores. What you can do is see if there is a micro center near you and you will be able to get all those parts there for close to the price partpicker has. If not then take all those parts and see what Newegg has for a total because Newegg will have all those parts but the price will be a bit higher on some of them. Amazon is another place that you may b able to get those parts and they have free shipping on just about everything. With a top budget of $700 you do have a bit of room if you wan to go with one store and some of the parts are a bit higher.
When your looking at the partpicker if you click on an item it will show you what the other stores had for a price.
 

sethwilliam

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Just realized somthing. Since I'm buying all these parts do they come with the screws and all the other little things I need or will I have to buy them separately? And isn't there suppose to be a fan over the CPU? I didn't see a fan in the build and don't want to overheat the thing.
 
Ok I changed the thread from Discussion to Question and you should now see an option to "pick as solution" under each post from anyone that responded.
In the future when making a new thread and you want it as a question so you can have the option to pick a solution you have to check the box that says "ask the community" , if you don't check that box then the thread defaults to a discussion type thread and that type has no solution option.
 


The parts that you buy will usually come with any screws or wires/connectors that you may need, the cpu that you have in the list will come with a fan/heatsink that you install on the cpu once it's put in the socket in the motherboard. You do have the option to get an after market fan/heatsink if you want to but only if you plan on overclocking the cpu.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116775

If you look at the details page for the cpu that I listed at the bottom you will see that it includes a fan/heatsink , this will also come with all the necessary clamps , screws and instructions on how to install it. One thing that's very important and that is be very careful putting the cpu in the motherboard socket, one bent pin in the socket and the board is toast. Line up the notches on the edges of the cpu with the notches in the socket and be careful.
 
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